I have a Western Digital My Passport Ultra USB 3.0 portable HD. It's a USB powered portable HD. Wondering if it would work with this hub.
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It should work just fine. I've plugged Bluetooth devices, flash drives, and external hard drives into it and had no trouble at all.
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I use a WD portable drive and it works well with this USB hub. (I did not try with more than one external drives.)
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I used it with a Seagate FreeAgent device and it worked. I have not had a need to use it on a Western Digital, sorry.
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I am looking for an external hard drive to back up my entire lap top hard drive, in case of failure. Is the Passport Essential the unit I am looking for?
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I use a mixture of USB 2.0 and 3.0 devices. Everything I have connected to this hub worked as expected.
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Yes, it works with USB 2.0 with an exception. If you connect it to a non-powered USB 2.0 Hub it does not always work. It always works with my USB 2.0 powered hub and it works when I plug it directly into my computer. It is much faster with USB 3.0 Port. (I don't have a USB 3.0 external hub so don't know how it would work with that). It comes with a USB cable that is around 1 foot long. The USB Connection on the drive side is "micro B". I have five of these drives (4 1TB drives and 1 500GB drive) and I did manage to "break" one of my USB cables. Costs about $7 to replace the cable through Amazon. I take the drive from home to work almost every day so I am always disconnecting and reconnecting the drive. I use a CaseLogic case when I'm transporting the drive and I may have bent the USB cable when I stored it in the case.
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It should. Since it is powered off the incoming USB port you have to be a little careful. Size of the disk has nothing to do with it. They do have different power requirements. If the disk is self powered, then there is no problem. If the disks are not self powered, while I suspect you will be OK, I would go with a powered hub.
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i do not recommend buying a USB powered Hub for external drives. Buy the one with external power. The USB powered one will turn off your HD sometimes and it is annoying esp if you are downloading files.
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Yep. That's the same thing I did. Of course your external HD will have to support USB2, because, I'm confident that you can't go: USB2 Mac -> USB3 hub -> USB3 HD. However, most newer ext HD's support both USB 2 & 3
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Don't know. I tried it with a scanner and a printer and both worked OK, but it would not recognize a USB hub.
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I believe the Western Digital Passport series qualifies for the 7200 rpm speed but this USB powered drive is powered from the USB port with no means to power it with an external power source. If you must have an externally powered drive you might consider purchasing a external hard drive enclosure that supports that feature and a bare drive with compatible specs and then assemble them yourself.
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It is compatible with all the WD My passports except the WD my book. cheers!
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It should act just as any other powered USB hub. Just make sure you have proper power supplied.
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A 2.5" HDD -laptop hard drive- or a SSD hard drive will work fine as I am using this on a daily basis. All these being said, there a very slight chance that your USB port won't have enough power to sustain my claim. But, given that there are 99.9% chances to work fine, what have you got to loose? It WILL WORK with either a 2.5" HDD or a SSD drive. I used with four devices at once without the need for external power. The UNTEK hub DOES COME with an external power adapter.
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B. Meerdink, neither of the two information you brought are backed by the links you posted.I've been searching the internet for the same info D. Wong wants, I'm about sure there is no document on WD's website that will state which is the internal drive interface of "My Passport Essential" products. This is something only reviewers who have opened their "My Passport Essential" drives can tell us. Do you happen to own one of those? Have you opened it up?? Has anyone out there?
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Not sure what I did wrong. But I plug this to my PC USB 3.0 port, then plug WD My Passport Slim 2TB Portable HD to it and the PC didn't recognize the HD. Plugging HD straight to PC USB port works.
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All I know is this. It is non-powered hub. Works for multiple flash drives *as many as three have worked at the same time for me*, but if you try external hard drives you will run into difficulty because there is insufficient power from a single USB port to run multiple devices that need more power. t